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The case of the two Imia islets (in Greek) or Kardak rocks (in Turkish) is a more recent addition to the already heavy Aegean agenda. It came to the fore in 1996 (see Chapter 9). At the time, Turkey raised the wider issue of the existence of ‘grey zones’ in the Aegean, that is, islets and rocks in the eastern Aegean whose status as to sovereignty was ‘undetermined’.
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Heraclides, A. (2010). Imia/Kardak and the Grey Zones. In: The Greek-Turkish Conflict in the Aegean. New Perspectives on South-East Europe Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230283398_15
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